Keffu Amer

Keffu Amer (born 26 October 1970) was an Islamic State sympathizer from Germany who was arrested on 23 July 2016 for planning terrorist acts in Germany.

Biography
Keffu Amer was born on 26 October 1970 in Tannourine el-Faouqa, Lebanon to a Sunni Muslim family. He immigrated to Germany with his family at the age of nine in 1979 during the Lebanese Civil War, and the family settled in Hamburg. Amer worked as a delivery truck driver for a local bakery for years, and he married a local Syrian woman and had three children with her. In 2016, he was inspired by Abu Mohammad al-Adnani's instructions for Muslims in the West to kill "apostates" and "infidels" by any means possible, and Amer decided to purchase an AK-47 assault rifle from an underground arms dealer. However, he was arrested in a sting operation and sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to provide material support to a terrorist group as well as attempted murder.